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Why Arista Networks (ANET) is a Top Growth Stock for the Long-Term

Zacks Equity Research
·2 min read

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Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.

Why This 1 Growth Stock Should Be On Your Watchlist

For growth investors, a company's financial strength, overall health, and future outlook take precedence, so they'll want to zero in on the Growth Style Score. This Score examines things like projected and historical earnings, sales, and cash flow to find stocks that will generate sustainable growth over time.

Arista Networks (ANET)

Santa Clara, CA-based Arista Networks, Inc. is engaged in providing cloud networking solutions for data centers and cloud computing environments. The company offers 10/25/40/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet switches and routers optimized for next generation data center networks.

ANET sits at a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), holds a Growth Style Score of A, and has a VGM Score of B. Earnings and sales are forecasted to increase 27.7% and 26.2% year-over-year, respectively.

Nine analysts revised their earnings estimate higher in the last 60 days for fiscal 2023, while the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.06 to $5.85 per share. ANET also boasts an average earnings surprise of 14.7%.

Arista Networks is also cash rich. The company has generated cash flow growth of 28.1%, and is expected to report cash flow expansion of 66.6% in 2023.

With solid fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and top-tier Growth and VGM Style Scores, ANET should be on investors' short lists.

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